I have handwritten papers that I want to scan into my computer and change it into text so I can edit it in Word. Is there a free softare I can get that will allow me tom do this????

Hey Ryan, welcome to PCHF by the way.

Yes there is free software out there, I use Simple OCR: SimpleOCR - the only royalty free OCR engine! (but does not work quite as well as some of the paid software packages out there such as TextBridge and IRIS).

But to be honest, software has often encountered difficulties reading printed text let alone hand writing, primarily due to the fact we all have different styles of writing, and we never write out letters exactly the same every time. These software packages do have the ability to learn. It really depends on how clear your hand writing is. It will ask you at each point if a particular word is not in the dictionary and learn from it, but your likely to find it more hastle than it's worth.

Doesn't MS Word have a feature that does this?
Maybe it was the Microsoft Scanner Wizard but I know I've seen it somewhere before

It does indeed, but only scans them as images, and has no OCR facility to convert it into text.

EDIT: Marked as Answered.